The studios and tower of WELE on
highway 17-92 in DelandHistory
of WELEWELE-FM began as WOOO-FM;
Mr. Brian Tolby, former owner of WSBB-AM 1230,
New Smyrna Beach, fills us in on the history of WDLF. "...That
station was to be a Winter Park FM, WABR(-AM 1440), owned by the Petersons who also owned
Peterson
Outdoor Advertising in Orange & Seminole counties, who were sitting on
an FM permit. I filed to move it to Deland and it went on the air in l965. I
sold that station in l976 to Joe Gratz who owned WELE
AM (1380) and he changed the calls to WELE-FM..." In 1986 after the purchase by
American
Media, WELE
began broadcasting from a 1,650-foot tower in Orange City and operated at
100,000 watts, enabling it to reach from Daytona Beach to Tampa.